Economy for and Against Democracy

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-844-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 560 g

Reihe: The Human Economy

Political constitutions alone do not guarantee democracy; a degree of economic equality is also essential. Yet contemporary economies, dominated as they are by global finance and political rent-seekers, often block the realization of democracy. The comparative essays and case studies of this volume examine the contradictory relationship between the economy and democracy and highlight the struggles and visions needed to make things more equitable. They explore how our collective aspirations for greater democracy might be informed by serious empirical research on the human economy today. If we want a better world, we must act on existing social realities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hart, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Keith Hart

PART I: ECONOMY VERSUS DEMOCRACY

Chapter 1. Habits of austerity: financialization and new ways of dealing with money

Jürgen Schraten

Chapter 2. What financial crisis? The global politics of finance: distributional consequences and legitimizing narratives

Horacio Ortiz

Chapter 3. Party funding for and against democracy in Zimbabwe and South Africa

Booker Magure

PART II: THE STRUGGLE FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY

Chapter 4. Women as mediators in post-war Mozambique: pushing lobolo from price to propriety

Albert Farré

Chapter 5. Negotiating state and market: the South African HIV/AIDS movement and social change

Theodore Powers

Chapter 6. Beyond the market: the case of white workers in Pretoria

John Sharp & Stephan Van Wyk

Chapter 7. Waves of unrest: wildcat strikes and possible democratic change in Swaziland

Vito Laterza

PART III: VISIONS OF HUMAN ECONOMY AND DEMOCRACY

Chapter 8. Solidarity economy in contemporary Greece: ‘movementality’, economic democracy and social reproduction

Theodoros Rakopoulos

Chapter 9. Money for a human economy: a reflection from Argentina

Hadrien Saiag

Chapter 10. Human economy: the revolutionary struggle for happiness

Keith Hart

Chapter 11. Building a human economy movement: the precedent of transnational feminism

Camille Sutton-Brown

Notes on authors

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hart, Keith
Keith Hart is International Director of the Human Economy Programme at the University of Pretoria. His recent books include The Human Economy: A Citizen's Guide, Economic Anthropology, People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis and Money in a Human Economy.

Keith Hart is International Director of the Human Economy Programme at the University of Pretoria. His recent books include The Human Economy: A Citizen's Guide, Economic Anthropology, People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis and Money in a Human Economy.